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Camera? No Service.

At the Village Voice day party at La Zona Rosa, I resort to having to stash my camera under a rock, due to the arbitrary rule that it has a […]

SXSW 2009 – Thursday Recap

Any visible signs of a recession are seemingly absent from this year's SXSW Music Festival, where the familiar stew of college kids and industry hacks clogged both 6th Street and

Southwest Smorgasbord

For those who haven't been checking out the Concert Calendar, I'll be traveling back to Austin tomorrow for the 23rd annual SXSW Music Festival. After last year's overindulgence in all

My Kind of Irish

St. Patrick's Day is this Tuesday, when everyone and their cousin will pretend to be Irish (read: drunk) for the day. But, the real celebration is tonight, with a pair

Cabinet Level

Q: Where, on a single bill, can you see two leading authors, the leading comic of the indie rock world, a prolific singer-songwriter about to release his 10th studio album,

Afterparty

  After midnight, a small crowd gathers in a temp space on N. 8th to hear some scruffy band from Arlington, VA, play mediocre garage rock. Mixed among the usual

Oh wait…

Four blocks south, the Sideshow Gallery has this one-man-band dude Bradford Reid playing some homemade contraption that sounds like the baddest blues guitar I've ever heard. His voice is coming

Art < > Music

I'm out in Williamsburg tonight for the annual Armory Show Brooklyn Night, where galleries throw open their doors with the lure of free beer, wine, and other treats in the

Opium Den Bluegrass

It's not every day you find a string band playing in the basement of a Chinese restaurant, but that's exactly where the M Shanghai String Band holds court each month

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